Solution Focused Flashcards
Solution Focused significant contribution is to assess client strengths. What are strengths and how to assess?
Strengths include resources in a person’s life, personally, relationally, financially, socially, or spiritually and may include family support, positive relationships and religious faith
Strengths are assessed in two ways:
- By directly asking about strengths and areas of life that are going well
- By listening carefully for exceptions to problems and for areas of unnoticed strength
Founder of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg
Client Motivation: Visitors, Complainant, and Customers
Visitors: usually brought to therapy by an outside other such as spouse, parents, courts
Complainants: identify a problem but expect therapy or some other person to be the primary source of change
Customers: identify a problem and want to take action towards the problem
Solution-Generating Questions:
Miracle, Crystal ball, Magic wand, and Time machine questions
What is the process to make it work best?
- Prepares client for a solution-generating question
- Creates a compelling vision
- Asks for behavioral differences
“Suppose one night, while you were asleep, there was a miracle and this problem was solved. How would you know the miracle had occurred?”
“If you go to bed tonight and a miracle happens while you are asleep, and when you wake up in the morning your problem is solved, how will things be different?”
Formula First Session Task Intervention example:
Between now and the next time we meet, I would like you to observe, so that you can describe to me next time, what happens in your family/life/etc that you want to continue to have happen.
Pre-Suppositional question and assuming future solution example:
What will you be doing differently when these issues are resolved?
Coping Questions example
This is so hard – how have you kept it from getting worse?
Exception questions example
Are there times when this doesn’t happen?
